Some critics argue that there have been exceptions to the democratic peace.

Rummel's first work on democratic peace received little attention.

It must have a great and guiding goal to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

It would serve as the institutional embodiment and ratification of the "democratic peace".

Yet for all its influence, the theory of the democratic peace carries a crucial caveat.

At best, scholars agree, the democratic peace exists only when established liberal democracies face one another.

Numerous explanations have been proposed for the democratic peace.

These studies indicate that democracy, alone, is an unlikely cause of the democratic peace.

We must continue to use the democratic process to achieve democratic peace.

There are many other proposed explanations for the democratic peace.